Mark Atwood wrote:
> 
> On Jul 24, 2008, at 8:20 AM, Monty Taylor wrote:
> 
>> Mark Atwood wrote:
>>> I say rip it out
>>>
>>> It's confusing to users. they think it's either a constraint, or it
>>> actually saves storage.
>>
>> ++
>>
>> Also, I think we can either have a mysqldump_to_drizzledump tool...
>> and/or we can have a dbdump tool that can speak Drizzle and MySQL (and
>> postgres? - maybe I'm reaching) and dump to an appropriate target
>> syntax...
> 
> 
> How hard will it be to make something links to libdrizzleclient and
> libmysqlclient
> 
> If that linkage is a nightmare, then something that connects to the
> command line interfaces of the two systems.

Once we're done, this should not be hard. If it is, I consider it a bug
and we'll fix it.

There should be no issues linking to libdrizzle and libmysqlclient. (I
mean, eventually)

> Probably should be written in Perl or Python to handle all the
> translation issues..

Actually I agree with this anyway. Already spoke with Michael Bayer from
SQLAlchemy about getting a drizzle dialect done for that... it would be
probably pretty easy to build a nice robust tool using SQLAlchemy in
Python to do this for tons of dbs... without being bloatware.

Monty

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